Established in 2018, the NSRI Fredericksburg Field Office & Laboratory is strategically located for convenience and accessibility to collaborators and end-users from the U.S. Department of Defense throughout Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. A high-performing, multi-disciplinary team of NSRI scientists with more than 60 years of combined experience in chemical and biological defense research accesses specialized equipment in a 1,400-square-foot laboratory to contribute premier expertise in microbial systems production and analysis. They deliver to DOD projects in the areas of biological defense, counterproliferation, biosurveillance and chemical and biological decontamination.